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jewel-digest                Sunday, 21 July 1996        Volume 01 : Number 386

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From: Piglet & Fuzzy <rleigh@vt.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 18:51:01 +0600
Subject: Well...

hello everyone!
After waking up from my coma-like sleep of 20+ hours that I fell into after
I walked in the
door, I am here to tell all the tale of a college student with an impulse
control problem and
his little bear from a small town in SW Virginia who traveled all the way up
the East coast
to see a certain young lady.  I tell you now it is huge, much Jewel content,
and is detailed.
I warn you all now, I am putting out all the gossip, all the dirt, all the
love that occurred (I
can see it now Liz and Crunch are already turning red)
Tuesday night - role play with friends till midnight killing many to get my
mind off of JS
for the first time in days.
late Tuesday night - post till about three working out the final details of
the adventure
Wednesday morn - classes as usual, but just felt oooohhh so much longer than
normal,
went home in between them to set the recorder to tape Rosie but had the
wrong time (bad
TV Guide, bad TV Guide)
finally get onto the highway at about 1pm only to run into construction and
get stuck on
81 for an hour.
somewhere on the way to Charlotesville to meet up with Peter and his better
millage car I
spot a true red fox in the median of the highway, a good luck sign that
proved to be true.
pile into Peter's Volvo wagon, thanks again for the ride and what a stereo,
and head up the
road
first seven hours on the road fly by as we listen to Jewel, boots, Dar
Williams (?) (check
her stuff out), Natile Merchant, Patti Griffin, and such.  Talking about the
most confusing
show on TV, the X-files, movies, and such and munching on RC cola, pretzels
(thanks
Peter), peanut butter sandwiches (the food of the week) and apples.
in New Jersey somewhere: 
Me (never having been in Jersey before):  "Hey what are all those lights, a
big city?"
Peter: "No the refineries, thank Mr. Dupont"
Me:  "Eeeaaaawwwww!!!"
Stopping for gas and restroom at a Bob's Big Boy and gas station.  Go in to
use the
bathrooms, ash trays right next to the urinals (does this say something
about Jersey?). 
Waiting for Steve make a little bit more than eye contact with a beautiful
young woman
eating with some friends, but my luck not only is she in another state that
I am just driving
through but she probably is under 18, jailbait (hey you watch out there
Garret and Rachel!
just kidding)
Get a little bit lost on the Jersey Turnpike, Me:  "Hi gay guys in the
really old car with lots
of stickers" but end up at Steve's campsite at about 1:30 AM okay
Steve's Campsite:
first impressions, its really dark and WOW look at those stars, can even see
the Milky
Way, never seen so many stars before in one little patch of sky.
Peter goes off to try to conduct business in Japan via his cellular phone,
but we're not in a
cellular zone.  Walk up to the campsite, see a fire burning out, a couple of
tents (one really
tiny pup tent with the younger Greg and someone else in it), one person
(Rich from PA)
sleeping on the ground on a mattress, one who has made a tent over one of
the picnic
table (Garret), and someone (Tom O'Brien) sleeping right next to the fire on
the other
picnic table.  Sit down at the fire with Fuzzy with the plan to either stay
up all night or just
sleep there, have a tent but just did not feel like putting it up.  A few
bear bottles,
remnants of roasting marshmallows and a little bit of other trash, and a
pile of cord wood
that three of the group bought (thanks guys).  Start stoking the fire for
warmth, is the guy
on the table awake?  Then his pillow falls to the ground.  Tom "Was waiting
for that to
happen"  Introduce myself.  Tom says they were waiting for us.  He falls
back to sleep
after awhile.  After about a half hour or so decide to set up my tent in the
dark, isn't as
hard as I thought it would be.  Lay down with my bear and just about get to
sleep, even
with the snoring coming from next to me (Tom from CAL.).  Then at about 3 am
two cars
pull up with two rather noisy guys (Crunch and Dan Stark).  They come on
over and set
up after a little noise.
Thursday
morning -  wake up around eight I think, introductions, meet Liz and her big
sister,
showers (telling Garret that Liz's sister might be naked right on the other
side of the wall),
waiting for Liz and her sister to be done with there showers and having a
discussion about
how come six guys can take their showers and be done before two girls, hmmmmm?
sit around the fire toasting my strawberry pop tart (is it done, no its
burnt) and watching
Rich do an excellent job of toasting his bread.  Meet Suzy the yellow dog,
she must belong
to Steve the camp owner.  Also meet Steve's dad, a nearly deaf man who likes
to repeat
himself allot.  Suzy thou was fun, turns out she likes Strawberry poptarts
just as much as I
do.
Head into Phoenicia for breakfast.  Eat a little quaint place, rearrange the
table so we can
all sit together.  The waitress was very helpful, snuck up on me and filled
my coffee cup
with out me even noticing.  Being on a very tight budget I just order coffee
and milk,
everyone else got OJ.  Shelly(?) (Liz's sister) orders up a mushroom and ham
omelet that
is also order by several others.  Some really nice, but expensive, local art
work on the
walls of the diner.   Much thanks again to CAL. Tom for letting me have some
of his
omelet.
Hang out the town for awhile, thinking about making up a huge vegetarian
stew for
dinner, but need a big pot, but no pot in town (toke it up, baby!).  So
there we are all just
hanging out in front of the library on the main street of the town, if you
drove down it and
blinked you would of missed all the shops, waiting for the liquor store to
open.  Sinjin
comes out of nowhere and joins the group.  He was on his way to the camp
grounds when
he saw us and stopped.  Then out of the blue comes this grey car with a guy
sticking his
torso up out of the sunroof.  I swear he is wearing a black leather jacket
with racing
patches all over it, and he starts howling at Shelly.   If I hadn't of been
surrounded by such
a group of love and holding Fuzzy at the time I would of whipped out the old
Boy Scout
Buck knife and done a little dirty dead dirt cheap.  Then after there done
filling up on gas
they drive past again and the fool holds up a carton of milk and yelling out
says milk does
your body good, though Shelly is no longer there she's in the liquor store
buying some
wine.  Hang out in the Whole Foods store with Greg looking for vegetarian
stuff for the
stew we never made.  Talk to the girl working there, really nice girl.  Told
her all about
what was going on, she was one of the few who didn't think we were freaks.
What she
had heard by Jewel she enjoyed.  Over all the people in Phoenicia were nice
to us.
Back at the camp, while Peter leads a small group to go check out the venue
and Shelly is
looking for a nice spot in the creek to chill the wine, the rest off us
still kinda mad at
Crunch and Dan for waking us up when they arrived and also the fact that
Crunch is still
asleep at 1pm, we start throwing rocks near his tent.  Well progresses to
throwing them at
his tent (actually its Dan's tent, sorry Dan).  Then he pops his goofing,
I'm a living
cartoon, head out and says hello.
Get into a discussion about Shelly's bugspray/spf15/skin moistener lotion
that she is
passing around.
Bearsville - pull in around 2pm.  There is a small group of people around
the entrance and
then some more over at the fountain.  Rachel and her friend made some really
neat plastic
bubbles that I accidentally stepped on.  Met so many people that I can't
remember, I guess
Fuzzy was a great magnet.  Meet Gregg and Tony (gotta love that hair), throw
Fuzzy over
to her for a hug (she's one of the Guardians of Fuzzy along with Liz and
Rachel).  As I've
said at the show my memory for names is not great, well neither is my memory
period
(bad biology classes!, bad biology classes!).  Go over to the circle to meet
the rest of the
group that is over at the fountain.  See Rachel, hard to miss in the tie-die
and purple hair. 
Give her a hug and she steals, I mean holds Fuzzy for a while.  Meet Selena,
does she look
like a roman goddess or what (what a lucky husband!).  And she is just as much a
sweetheart in person as on the list, gotta love her.  Lots of other
introductions happen but
its just a blur right now, sorry to those who I forgot to mention.  Eric
sticks out right now,
don't remember when he introduced himself to me but a great guy, hope he
wasn't the Eric
who wrecked.  
Then Sinjin comes over and says hey do you have a frisbee?  Well it just
happens that I
did, wanted to bring some plaything and the only thing I had was a really
old frisbee that
got lost in the commotion of the event, if anyone has it maybe I can get it
back sometime
in the future (my sister gave it to me) if not oh well.  Well his plan was
for me to throw at
the crowd in front of the venue and he would make a diving catch and grab
it, well you
know the best laid plans of mice and men don't work and this one didn't.
Ended up having
a big four on four practice session in the parking lot of the We Are the
Stinky Frisbee
Guard (man did we stink after hour or so of throwing in the hot evening
sun).  Rich, I
think the shortest guy there, had some amazing air.  And after he, umm,
warmed up, yeah
that's it, Sinjin got some good air, catches and a few great between the
legs grabs.  Only a
few, HEADS UP, shots went into the crowd.  Thanks again to the guy with long
black
hair for the water.
After I am thoroly tired, started off wearing my baja and jeans, I sit down
with the bunch
at the door.  Rachel had thankfully been taking care of Fuzzy for me.
Someone else
graciously let me have a pepsi.  Can hear auditions for musicians for the
tour coming out
of the door on the side of the barn.  Musicians periodically are walking
out.  Then all of a
sudden her comes Jewel walking out.  I'm standing behind Liz and she
freezes, I'm
whispering breathe, breathe in her ear.  Tony, in a lounge chair with her
back to Jewel, is
the only person she talks to, a quick I like your hair and have always
wanted to do
something like that with mine, Tony says thanks and then Jewel gets into a
little red car to
be driven back to her hotel for a quick shower before the show.
Sandy and Crunch go for a walk back to the creek.  Someone says "Crunch went
around
the corner with the looker."  Someone else says mistaking looker with
hooker:  "What a
great town!"
They return an hour or so later with pb&j sandwiches.  Me:"how does it take
an hour to
make pb&j sandwiches that Crunch had already made, hmmmmm."
The great lets all mash up in front of the doors and yell at Crunch event
Well the show didn't start quite on time and we all ended up smashed up at
the front. 
Dennis kept us in good humors with his quick wit.  Fuzzy got some love from
Tony and
Liz while I got nauseous from the heat, thanks Gerrit for the water.  Armand
(Arm) is also
simply funny with his comments.  We see Akira and others on the inside
working on the
set up.  Then we see Crunch, what the hell is he doing in there, and then he
is sitting down
having a drink in the cool air conditioning while we are all about to die of
heat exhaustion
on the outside.  Akira hold up the F@#% U I'm Sensitive shirt in response to
our little bit
of noise for bunch of times, comments on it was funny the first three times
Akira fly. 
Jewel comes out with somebody, Mechell (?) her boyfriend maybe, and pretends
to try to
open the doors and then starts pretending to beat up on the guy.  Finally
the doors open
and we all file in to get our seats.
I sit second row one seat left of center.  Liz is on my left, Tom from Cal.
on my right,
Tony in front of me with Greg next to her.  Liz is obviously very excited to
be there.  I go
off to the bar to get a nice cool glass of grapefruit juice, the bartender
looked a lot like
younger Greg from Ohio(?).  Then back to my seat for the show.
Mike, Akira, and Dan(?) get up on stage for a quick little intro and thanks
list before Patty
hits the stage.  
Patty Griffin comes up on stage wearing a nice shirt that I am blanking on
and some really
cool yellow and blue tights.  The power of her voice and her playing was
just amazing.  I
could not sit still.  She played, not in this order, Let Him Fly, Mad
Mission (about her old
boyfriend if I remember right), Poor Man's House (about her father), Every
Little Bit, You
Never Get What You Want, and couple more for a total of ten or so songs.  She
commented on how that lately she had been touring all the big motor cities
of the north
and that when she would walk in the performer's entrance she would get
stopped and
asked for her pass.  But when she first walked into the Bearsville Theater
she was greeted
by tow hugs and felt so welcome.  I was a big fan of her just from the
album, but now I'm
thinking of starting a ML if I can figure out how to do it and a FAQ (this I
will do but may
be some time).  For the last two or three songs she was joined from what I
can gather
from the women in the audience and gorgeous dark haired Italian on guitar.
Well to sum
it up when he hit the stage Liz let out a little swooning noise and made a
comment about
how simple great looking he is.  She ended the show with a beautiful version
of Crazy, the
old Hank William Sr song (?).  This I would love to have a version of this
on tape.
Intermission, go off with Cal. Tom to have another drink at the bar.  Meet
dockmaster,
and cool off.  Back in my seat have a nice discussion with the older Greg
about Happy
Rhodes who was at the show.  What was the name of the CD of hers you
recommended?
Jewel comes out to much applause and noise.  She is wearing a simple great
shirt, that I
would love to have.  It was purple and looked so comfortable, could tell it
was one of her
favorites with the cute hole in the armpit that she pointed out later in the
show.  She reads allot of her poety, really beautiful stuff, maybe sometime
in the future she will publish a book (hint, hint Hiranya).  As she is
sorting through deciding which ones to read she drops them onto the ground
and it looks like she is throwing them away and the crowd goes nuts  Jewel:
"You know you try to think of something funny to say and then people just
laugh at little things like this."  Oh she was so funny at times.  Others
can do a better job on the set list than me.  I'm probably confusing allot
of the Thursday
show with the Friday show.  She asks for request, whole bunch yelled out,
"I'll play one
that wasn't requested."  I think it was Don't.  Show just rocks, mainly
rarities like Cold
Song (both nights so it might be on the album or just one of her personal,
and mine,
favorites).  Three new favorite songs:  Kmart Bathroom song, Satellites, and
Fat Boy. 
Kmart Bathroom is one of those songs like many of her's that is funny the
first few times
you hear it but the more you listen the more you cry (don't worry Tom
O'Brien I cried
during many myself, Nikos, Moon over Austin, Fat Boy and many more).  Its
was written
when she was really depressed and ended up in a Kmart bathroom and how the
florescent
lights bring out all the lines in your face and how the mirrors are all fat
mirrors Jewel: 
"Right Girls!"  Girls in crowd:  "Yeah!"  Fat Boy is about Edward who used
to work the
fields with her in Alaska and killed himself, leaving behind a note saying
he didn't feel
anyone would love him because he was so big.  Made me cry 'cause I sometimes
feel that
way too.  For someone so lovely, Jewel has certainly been through allot in
her little bit of
life, or maybe that is just a commentary on our society.  Allot of her songs
are about how
we feel pressure from everywhere that it is all in how you look, WWSYS, Fat
Boy, Nikos
at places, and others.  No musician has ever made me cry before, some a
little teary eyed,
but not flowing, and she does that to me.  Back to the show.  She comments
on the list,
how that she was on it awhile ago on some else's machine.  She answered the
whole
cigarette/lollypop question with Tom form LA saying "Grape" which made me
laugh so
hard.  Jewel "I would tell you all if I ever lit up."  When she asked again
for request later,
Liz and I both started chanting Racecar Driver, turns out that she really
hates that song,
Me "But he is in town"  Jewel:  "What?"  then Liz tells the story.  The band
just rocked!!! 
Mark (?) on guitar (and the little one  Jewel:  "He is a real man who is not
afraid to play a
little guitar."  and while he is tuning in between songs "Notice how his
nostrils flare when
he is tuning") was just amazing.  On Satellites, a song about living in LA,
a really beautiful
song that is positive not like WWSYS, he barely plays the guitar
traditionally the whole
time, blowing on the strings and using different knobs for amazing effects.
The drummer
(Jewel:  "I won't tell you what lesbians think his facial hair looks like")
who put just
enough power into the songs.  Then there is T-Bone on base, (Me and Arm:  "T-
Boooone!!"  "T!,T!,T!,T!,T!" with the time-out hand gesture)  with his VT
hat, though
not Virginia Tech but close enough for me.
the rest of the show was just amazing.  Especially her performance of Nikos,
the really evil
grin she had at "Smile" was just great.  I couldn't help but laugh out loud
when she
fumbled the opening guitar to one of the songs, crowd got quite and I said
sorry but she
quickly responded with "Don't be sorry, I thought it was funny too."  Still
I felt smaller
than Fuzzy (who also thought it was funny).  When Lenedra came on up to sing
with her
daughter I was taken aback by the beauty of it.  They look so much alike in
the face. 
After singing back up on one song, Lenedra went on to sing one of the
lullabies she used
to sing for Jewel.  I want a recording of it to play at bedtime, it was so
beautiful, Jewel is
so lucky to have her for a mom.  The next to last encore with Nikos,
Nicotine Love, and
one other made every one real sad, but Jewel made up for it with her final
encore.  The
message I think many got from the show was that men just suck.  A bunch of
us guys at
the campgrounds made a pact to all become lesbians and hunt down the racecar
driver in
town take him to the Friday show, get him to yell "Yodel," beat him up and
then sacrifice
him later at the campsite.
After the show hanging out waiting for Jewel to come over and sign
autographs.  She
walks over and seeing a big crowd I walk over to where Patty is and
introduce myself and
Fuzzy and ask for an autograph.  She starts to sign the cover of her cd and
I tell her that I
am a big fan, that my favorite song is Lorraine (playing right now) just
love the writing on
it.  She is a real sweet lady with a beautiful quiet voice.  I'm feeling
real faint and weak in
the knees, there shaking so fast right now, maybe from not having eaten much
over the
past two days, but probably because I have never meet someone who I
considered famous
before.  She signs "Robb, Thanks for listening All the best Peace Love Patty
Griffin."  Oh
gotta love her.  I ask her for a picture she says yes, and she actually puts
her arm around
me for the shot HAPPY LITTLE BOY!!!!!!  I say thanks and start to walk off.
Then I see
her accompanist come walking out of the barn.  I walk over, tell him he did
great in the
show and then tell him about Liz.  He is real nice and says "Your not
supposed to tell
people that" as he is blushing.  Then back to the line to wait for Jewel
autograph.  After
taking pictures for others I finally get up there.  Introduce myself and
Fuzzy and ask her if
I can get a picture off her and me and her hugging Fuzzy after she signs her
album cover. 
She does, hope this picture turns out.  Then she says wait and grabs Fuzzy
out of my arms
for the infamous kiss, that bear gets way more love than I do (am I jealous,
not really
cause I get to sleep with someone who was that close to Jewel and got a
little bit of lovin'
also).  And yes it was more than just a little friendly kiss there, lets
just say I got a real
good look at the tongue that sings the songs we all so much love.  And no
one got a
picture of it.  Can't blame Gerrit, neither he nor I was expecting this to
happen.  Also I
forgive all the rest of you out there with cameras at the time, who would of
thought it was
going to happen.  Trying to convince Liz to let me take a picture of her on
the guitarist
motorcycle with her arms wrapped around him.  The only time I remember that
girl being
quiet.  HeHe.
After that back to the hotels in an unsuccessful attempt to get kicked out
of New York as
Sinjin suggested and then all of the rest of the states until we hit LA in
one long party
spree.  Feeling real tired, laying back in the chairs at the bar with
Paul(?) and the T-shirt
guy while everyone else is getting a little drunk on free beer.  I know for
a fact that the
underage didn't, well at least Liz and Rachel.  Thanks for the water Rachel.
A group of us left early for the campsite to get a fire going.  Sinjin in
the rental car
driving, and squelling around corners.  Whoa Rental Car!!!  Us piled four in
the back of
the compact.  "Yeah Rich can fit if he sticks his head out of the window
(which he did for
awhile)."  Listening to Tom O'Brien getting a greeting from the crowd and
also the
marijuana story on a boot.  ""Hi Tom!!"  "My voice is on five boots now"
Hitting the campsite, me and Paul start a really big and kickin' fire.  Me:
"Hey what do you
expect from an Eagle Scout"  Paul: "Well I'm just a really big pyro."  
Staying up till sunrise back at the campsite with Rachel, Gerrit, Crunch,
and Shelly.  I
don't know about the rest but I think there was some true chemistry between
the last two. 
Not seeing a sunrise but instead just a lightening of the sky.  Tom O'Brien
snoring away
on the picnic table while the rest of us are talking.  Liz with a still
obvious buzz on from
the show.
Waking up I don't know when after a really short nap in my car.  Pack up the
vehicle and
head into Woodstock to do a little sight seeing before the finally show.
Lots of great little
shops in town.  Meet a very pretty and interesting girl in one of the shops,
she might be
joining the list (you out there) talked about the show and the airplane
crash.  She said she
heard Jewel on the local radio doing a lunch time interview.  Really wanted
to invite her to
the second show but didn't know if she could get in (Bad hormones!!, Bad
hormones!!).  
Hanging out in the square with Crunch, Shelly, Arm, Greg, Rocker, and others
was great. 
Rocker has to be one of the most laid back and tanned guys I have ever meet.
Arm got
Shelly to go get her navel pierced but the cost was way too much, though Arm
did get his
other ear pierced.  The rain did little to ruin the mood, Rocker, Arm and me
hanging out
under a tree and then at a shop.  Meeting up with Mike, Dennis and the guy
who has
Jewel's water bottle at the photo shop.  Photographing us infront of a store
called Pieces
of Me and covering up the ry on Jewelry so it read Jewel.  
Going back to the bar at the hotel, listening to the Boston show, playing
cards, teaching
little Patty to play 5 card stud, watching all the other kids run around,
letting Patty play
with Fuzzy.  Meeting Catherine and talking to her for a long time.  Really
enjoyed meeting
you in person.  Talking to a young lady from Toronto (home of many of the
songs we
love, and I say the mecca for the list) off the list for a long time at the
bar then off to the
show with two really nice girls who I can not remember there names now,
sorry =(. 
Meeting back up with everyone at the show.  Meeting and giving hugs to
Jennifer, passing
around tylinol "Its wrong to take drugs, stealing is bad"  Thanks very much
for the
Chinese food and your friend for the Ben and Jerry's ice cream.  Got a good
photo of
Dennis is his Grateful Dead Bear shirt with Fuzzy on his head, the only
photo he let me
take of him.  Second show was great and I'm too tired to go into detail
except that Fuzzy
rode the crowd and got a wave from Jewel when she came on, also she said
something
about him at the end but could not understand her too good.  Got a great
shot of her
riding away on hey bo's bike.  Thanks again to Dennis for running around
trying to get me
that boot.  I miss you all so much, and as I tried to yell out at the end I
love you all
emensly.  This list has helped me get through some really rough shit in my
life, with out
you I don't know where I would be and don't even want to think about how
this summer
could of been.  Well the soreness is starting to wear off and I think my
voice is back to
normal now so here goes my complete memories of the show, sorry again to all
those who
I forgot to mention and those whose names I forgot.  Feel really bad that I
didn't get to
meet you Silvercat.  In a way I sum up the whole trip with:  There were no
awkward
moments, only love and mutual respect for each other and for a special young
woman
whose name fits her soul.
well again sorry for the length but some out there wanted all the dirt

Robb "I have an impuss control problem and I love it!"
and Fuzzy "She kissed me!!!!She really kissed me!!!!!"
w/ 12" 'Zilla and Tricky the invisible calico cat

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From: Fuzzy the Love Bear & Robb <rleigh@vt.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:28:59 +0600
Subject: well...prt3

the rest of the show was just amazing.  Especially her performance of Nikos,
the really evil
grin she had at "Smile" was just great.  I couldn't help but laugh out loud
when she
fumbled the opening guitar to one of the songs, crowd got quite and I said
sorry but she
quickly responded with "Don't be sorry, I thought it was funny too."  Still
I felt smaller
than Fuzzy (who also thought it was funny).  When Lenedra came on up to sing
with her
daughter I was taken aback by the beauty of it.  They look so much alike in
the face. 
After singing back up on one song, Lenedra went on to sing one of the
lullabies she used
to sing for Jewel.  I want a recording of it to play at bedtime, it was so
beautiful, Jewel is
so lucky to have her for a mom.  The next to last encore with Nikos,
Nicotine Love, and
one other made every one real sad, but Jewel made up for it with her final
encore.  The
message I think many got from the show was that men just suck.  A bunch of
us guys at
the campgrounds made a pact to all become lesbians and hunt down the racecar
driver in
town take him to the Friday show, get him to yell "Yodel," beat him up and
then sacrifice
him later at the campsite.
After the show hanging out waiting for Jewel to come over and sign
autographs.  She
walks over and seeing a big crowd I walk over to where Patty is and
introduce myself and
Fuzzy and ask for an autograph.  She starts to sign the cover of her cd and
I tell her that I
am a big fan, that my favorite song is Lorraine (playing right now) just
love the writing on
it.  She is a real sweet lady with a beautiful quiet voice.  I'm feeling
real faint and weak in
the knees, there shaking so fast right now, maybe from not having eaten much
over the
past two days, but probably because I have never meet someone who I
considered famous
before.  She signs "Robb, Thanks for listening All the best Peace Love Patty
Griffin."  Oh
gotta love her.  I ask her for a picture she says yes, and she actually puts
her arm around
me for the shot HAPPY LITTLE BOY!!!!!!  I say thanks and start to walk off.
Then I see
her accompanist come walking out of the barn.  I walk over, tell him he did
great in the
show and then tell him about Liz.  He is real nice and says "Your not
supposed to tell
people that" as he is blushing.  Then back to the line to wait for Jewel
autograph.  After
taking pictures for others I finally get up there.  Introduce myself and
Fuzzy and ask her if
I can get a picture off her and me and her hugging Fuzzy after she signs her
album cover. 
She does, hope this picture turns out.  Then she says wait and grabs Fuzzy
out of my arms
for the infamous kiss, that bear gets way more love than I do (am I jealous,
not really
cause I get to sleep with someone who was that close to Jewel and got a
little bit of lovin'
also).  And yes it was more than just a little friendly kiss there, lets
just say I got a real
good look at the tongue that sings the songs we all so much love.  And no
one got a
picture of it.  Can't blame Gerrit, neither he nor I was expecting this to
happen.  Also I
forgive all the rest of you out there with cameras at the time, who would of
thought it was
going to happen.  Trying to convince Liz to let me take a picture of her on
the guitarist
motorcycle with her arms wrapped around him.  The only time I remember that
girl being
quiet.  HeHe.
After that back to the hotels in an unsuccessful attempt to get kicked out
of New York as
Sinjin suggested and then all of the rest of the states until we hit LA in
one long party
spree.  Feeling real tired, laying back in the chairs at the bar with
Paul(?) and the T-shirt
guy while everyone else is getting a little drunk on free beer.  I know for
a fact that the
underage didn't, well at least Liz and Rachel.  Thanks for the water Rachel.
A group of us left early for the campsite to get a fire going.  Sinjin in
the rental car
driving, and squelling around corners.  Whoa Rental Car!!!  Us piled four in
the back of
the compact.  "Yeah Rich can fit if he sticks his head out of the window
(which he did for
awhile)."  Listening to Tom O'Brien getting a greeting from the crowd and
also the
marijuana story on a boot.  ""Hi Tom!!"  "My voice is on five boots now"
Hitting the campsite, me and Paul start a really big and kickin' fire.  Me:
"Hey what do you
expect from an Eagle Scout"  Paul: "Well I'm just a really big pyro."  
Staying up till sunrise back at the campsite with Rachel, Gerrit, Crunch,
and Shelly.  I
don't know about the rest but I think there was some true chemistry between
the last two. 
Not seeing a sunrise but instead just a lightening of the sky.  Tom O'Brien
snoring away
on the picnic table while the rest of us are talking.  Liz with a still
obvious buzz on from
the show.
Waking up I don't know when after a really short nap in my car.  Pack up the
vehicle and
head into Woodstock to do a little sight seeing before the finally show.
Lots of great little
shops in town.  Meet a very pretty and interesting girl in one of the shops,
she might be
joining the list (you out there) talked about the show and the airplane
crash.  She said she
heard Jewel on the local radio doing a lunch time interview.  Really wanted
to invite her to
the second show but didn't know if she could get in (Bad hormones!!, Bad
hormones!!).  
Hanging out in the square with Crunch, Shelly, Arm, Greg, Rocker, and others
was great. 
Rocker has to be one of the most laid back and tanned guys I have ever meet.
Arm got
Shelly to go get her navel pierced but the cost was way too much, though Arm
did get his
other ear pierced.  The rain did little to ruin the mood, Rocker, Arm and me
hanging out
under a tree and then at a shop.  Meeting up with Mike, Dennis and the guy
who has
Jewel's water bottle at the photo shop.  Photographing us infront of a store
called Pieces
of Me and covering up the ry on Jewelry so it read Jewel.  
Going back to the bar at the hotel, listening to the Boston show, playing
cards, teaching
little Patty to play 5 card stud, watching all the other kids run around,
letting Patty play
with Fuzzy.  Meeting Catherine and talking to her for a long time.  Really
enjoyed meeting
you in person.  Talking to a young lady from Toronto (home of many of the
songs we
love, and I say the mecca for the list) off the list for a long time at the
bar then off to the
show with two really nice girls who I can not remember there names now,
sorry =(. 
Meeting back up with everyone at the show.  Meeting and giving hugs to
Jennifer, passing
around tylinol "Its wrong to take drugs, stealing is bad"  Thanks very much
for the
Chinese food and your friend for the Ben and Jerry's ice cream.  Got a good
photo of
Dennis is his Grateful Dead Bear shirt with Fuzzy on his head, the only
photo he let me
take of him.  Second show was great and I'm too tired to go into detail
except that Fuzzy
rode the crowd and got a wave from Jewel when she came on, also she said
something
about him at the end but could not understand her too good.  Got a great
shot of her
riding away on hey bo's bike.  Thanks again to Dennis for running around
trying to get me
that boot.  I miss you all so much, and as I tried to yell out at the end I
love you all
emensly.  This list has helped me get through some really rough shit in my
life, with out
you I don't know where I would be and don't even want to think about how
this summer
could of been.  Well the soreness is starting to wear off and I think my
voice is back to
normal now so here goes my complete memories of the show, sorry again to all
those who
I forgot to mention and those whose names I forgot.  Feel really bad that I
didn't get to
meet you Silvercat.  In a way I sum up the whole trip with:  There were no
awkward
moments, only love and mutual respect for each other and for a special young
woman
whose name fits her soul.
well again sorry for the length but some out there wanted all the dirt

Robb "I have an impuss control problem and I love it!"
and Fuzzy "She kissed me!!!!She really kissed me!!!!!"
w/ 12" 'Zilla and Tricky the invisible calico cat

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From: Mike Connell <ducksoup@spectra.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:49:37 -0400
Subject: Re: 

Fuzzy the Love Bear & Robb wrote:
  
> are my posts getting out?

Depends on what you mean by getting out.

Mike
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From: jeffw (Jeff Wasilko)
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:51:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA

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From: PDeSanti@lmumail.lmu.edu
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:51:04 -0700
Subject: Re: jewel-digest V1 #370

     Jewelers,
     
     Where is Canandiagua, New York? I will be in the state on that day, 
     8-19 and want to know where the Neil Young/Jewel show is compared to 
     New York City where I'll be. I beleive the tickets go on sale this 
     Saturday. The MSG show is the next night the 20th but I imagine it 
     will be easier to get tiks for the other New York show than the one at 
     Madison Square, unless anyone on the list has some kind of connectiosn 
     to MSG.......and could give me some info. Anybody out there who can 
     help?
     
     Paul,
     Los Angeles, CA

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